Cubs Trade Alfonso Soriano to Yankees: Fantasy Baseball Impact
With the Yankees bringing back Alfonso Soriano for prospect Corey Black, the fantasy landscape has shifted ever so slightly – just one shift in a series of moves that will reshape the rest of the fantasy season. Let’s take a look at the fantasy winners and losers of the Cubs-Yankees, Alfonso Soriano-Corey Black trade. Winners: […]
Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Second-Half Closers
The closer position may be the most frustrating in the fantasy world. Already, the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, Brewers, Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Dodgers all have different closers than they started the season with. That’s not to mention guys who are filling in for injured closers like Jason Grilli and Rafael Betancourt. With 60-some-odd games left in […]
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for July 26
Believe it or not, this is the last Friday in July. There are just over two months left in the MLB season. While you wonder where the season has gone, join a Star Fantasy Leagues daily league and win some money so you can have some fun with what’s left of the summer. Tonight, I’ve […]
2013 MLB Trade Deadline: Will Pirates Target Reliever With Jason Grilli Injury?
Forget trying to finish over .500 for the first time since 1992—the Pittsburgh Pirates are expected to get into baseball’s postseason this year. Truthfully, the Pirates’ goal isn’t even to get in as a Wild Card as stated by general manager Neal Huntington. The hope is that they can win the National League’s Central Division […]
2013 MLB Trade Rumors: Tim Hudson Injury Could Force Braves’ Hand
At 57-45, the Atlanta Braves are in pretty good shape to make the postseason in the National League East. As good as they’ve been, the rest of the Division has been equally disappointing. The Philadelphia Phillies were expected to compete but have fallen flat on their collective face and are under .500. With a healthy […]
Fantasy Hockey: Evaluating and Projecting Goaltenders
How good a goaltender projects to be is a very precarious proposition. There are so many mitigating factors that play into how a goaltender performs at the NHL level that anyone who proclaims that they know a certain goaltender will be elite before they actually prove it over a large sample (there’s no real baseline, but […]
Week 17 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Jump in a Lake
With plenty of call-ups, trades, and injuries in the past week, fantasy owners have plenty of new names to target on the waiver wire this weekend. Let’s take a look at whose turn is up in the never-ending closer carousel and whose fantasy stock has run dry in this week’s stock market. Junior Lake: Speculative […]
Tortoises vs Hares Part II: What Scutaro and Trout Have in Common
We explained in Part I that the leading base runners in Major League Baseball in the “Scoring from First Base on a Double” scenario are mostly players who are more known for their power bats rather than their blazing speed. In this chapter of this series, we take a look at the leaders in the “Reaching […]